Whitebottom Farm

SJ 99 SE, 2/230

WERNETH COMPSTALL, Whitebottom Farm

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Farmhouse. Dated 1690 (lintel above main entrance). Coursed rubble sandstone; slate gable-end roof with stone coping. Three-room range with rear wing containing stair (forming a L-plan overall); the doorway appears to give in to a cross passage with the stack backing onto the passage and heating the lower end (down- house or kitchen): a somewhat unusual arrangement. Two storeys. 3-window front range, each upper window under a stone coped gable with kneelers with evidence for mullions (now removed). Hall and downhouse with 3+4 light mullioned windows to ground floor, inner room (to left) with modern casement inserted. Right-hand return with 3-light mullioned window to each floor (mullions removed from 1st floor). Similar to rear face of wing (with mullions removed from 1st floor). Casements inserted into early (perhaps original) window openings to rear of main range. Low extension to left replaced by new storeyed extension (stone-clad) under construction at time of survey visit (1989). Interior not inspected but understood to contain a splat baluster staircase and other features.

Listing NGR: SJ9753291591